Why did Jefferson Davis become CSA President?

Now there's a question, is there any way to have those two states join earlier and thereby give them a chance for having a good president?
 
Now there's a question, is there any way to have those two states join earlier and thereby give them a chance for having a good president?

IIRC Virginia joined because of Lincoln's call for volunteers to put down the rising. Kentucky was split down the middle. Perhaps if Lincoln called for more than the OTL number of volunteers that might have tipped the balance just a tad in favour of the Confederate supporters. And Kentucky in the CSA has some pretty large butterflies.
 
IIRC Virginia joined because of Lincoln's call for volunteers to put down the rising. Kentucky was split down the middle. Perhaps if Lincoln called for more than the OTL number of volunteers that might have tipped the balance just a tad in favour of the Confederate supporters. And Kentucky in the CSA has some pretty large butterflies.

Very doubtful, the controversy was calling for volunteers AT ALL not how many. If he halved them or doubled them it would not have made a bit of difference.
 
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